Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Traditionally belief is culturally associated with compassion, empathy, and a willingness to help. Many who do believe are inspired to be like that. However, those are values that the right-wing evangelicals have happily discarded and tossed under the bus. This is part of the price they pay in order to retain their allegiance to the … Read more
The basis for this posting is the result of a poll conducted by a Christian group named “Ligonier Ministries“, and no, I’ve never heard of them either. Their poll was conducted in 2018 and the details were published about one month ago … Ligonier Ministries teamed up with LifeWay Research, the research arm of the … Read more
Scan for weird religious news that popped up within the news cycle last week, and the folks that naturally bubble to the surface are specifically the right-wing religious Trump supporters. What you have is a complete and utter rejection of facts, evidence, and reality itself. Instead “Alternative facts” are promoted as “truth”. In this case … Read more
A scan of this weeks’ weird religious news is stuff that will strike terror deeply into specific groups of people – namely satirists and comedians. The stuff the right-wing religious promote is so utterly absurd that any attempt to parody it is destined to either fail, or instead be embraced as “truth”. It in effect … Read more
This week’s selection of weird religious news was of course sourced from election week. I’ve split it into both pre and then post election items. Why? Well basically because the things that were frantically important prior to the election, such as migrants, suddenly ceased in importance once the election was done. Funny that. Side Note: … Read more
As you scan this week’s weird religious news items it becomes rather clear that the looming midterms has the right-wing religious kicking their rhetoric into overdrive. The essence of it all is that all democrats are supposedly evil incarnate and only voting GOP will bring order back to the universe. You can paint me completely … Read more